From 31b8caf0a2ab6c3e05db4dedc198764ad17bcd06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Apolloni Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:11:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] file paths with a U like uses directories in Windows where being interperted at Unicode so force converting to string --- jrnl/util.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/jrnl/util.py b/jrnl/util.py index 7ae9d4df..fbba969e 100644 --- a/jrnl/util.py +++ b/jrnl/util.py @@ -54,12 +54,15 @@ def set_keychain(journal_name, password): def u(s): """Mock unicode function for python 2 and 3 compatibility.""" - return s if PY3 or type(s) is unicode else unicode(s, "unicode_escape") + """file paths with a U like uses directories in Windows where being interperted at Unicode so force converting to string""" + return s if PY3 or type(s) is unicode else unicode(s.encode('string-escape'), "unicode_escape") def prompt(msg): """Prints a message to the std err stream defined in util.""" if not msg.endswith("\n"): msg += "\n" + print "barf" + print msg STDERR.write(u(msg)) def py23_input(msg):